Architecture view generation method and system

• US 8,316,347 B2
• Filed: 12/05/2008
• Issued: 11/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Arsanjani, Ali P., Jalaldeen, Ahamed, Purohit, Siddharth
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong, Don
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hebert, Theodore
• Application Number:
  US12/328,827
• Publication Number:
  US 20100146479A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,446 Days
• Field of Search: 717/105
• US Class Current: 717/105
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management

Abstract

An SOA solution architecture generation method and system. The method includes retrieving by a computing system, a service model and an SOA solution architecture model. The computing system retrieves and loads a configuration file comprising mapping data. The mapping data comprises data associating elements of the service model to architectural layers of the SOA solution. Each element is processed. The computing system identifies each architectural layer that corresponds to an associated element based on the mapping data. Each element is placed in an associated layer of the architectural layers. The computing system generates a UML model. The UML model comprises each element in an associated layer of the architectural layers. The computing system loads the UML model.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

retrieving, by a computing system, a service model;

retrieving, by said computing system, an SOA solution architecture model;

generating, by said computing system, a graphical representation of said SOA solution architecture model, wherein said graphical representation of said SOA solution architecture model comprises horizontal layers and cross-cutting layers, wherein said horizontal layers comprise a consumers layer, a business process layer, a services layer, a service component layer, and an operation system layer, and wherein said cross-cutting layers comprise a governance layer, a data architecture layer, a QoS layer, and an integration layer;

retrieving, by said computing system, a configuration file comprising mapping data, wherein said mapping data comprises data associating elements of said service model to architectural layers of said SOA solution architecture model, wherein said architectural layers are comprised by said horizontal layers and said cross-cutting layers, wherein said elements comprise a process/subprocess element, a domain element, an exposed service element, a service/functional/technical component element, an existing asset element, a business entity element, a business goal element, and a policy element, and wherein said architectural layers comprise an operation system layer, a service component layer, a services layer, a business process layer, a data architecture and business intelligent layer, and a governance layer;

loading, by said computing system, said configuration file;

processing, by said computing system, each element of said elements;

identifying, by said computing system, layers of said architectural layers that correspond to associated elements of said elements of said service model, wherein said identifying is based on said mapping data, wherein said layers of said architectural layers are represented as unified modeling language (UML) packages;

associating, by said computing system, each layer of said layers with an associated UML package of said UML packages;

placing, by said computing system, each said element in an associated layer of said architectural layers;

generating, by said computing system in response to said placing, a UML model, wherein said UML model comprises each said element in an associated layer of said architectural layers;

generating, by said computing system, a graphical representation of said UML model, wherein said graphical representation of said UML model comprises a representation of said UML packages and associated expanded sub-packages, and wherein said associated expanded sub-packages are associated with said cross-cutting layers;

loading, by said computing system, said UML model;

executing, by said computing system, said UML model;

generating, by said computing system, a graphical representation of a first service model derived from said UML model, wherein said first service model comprises an identification package, a specification package, a realization package, and a work product specification package, wherein said identification package comprises a goal-service model, a domain decomposition, a process definition, an information analysis, a business rules catalog, existing assets, and a service portfolio, and wherein said specification package comprises exposed services, existing services, service messages, a subsystem analysis, and a stack diagram; and

presenting, by said computing system via a computer monitor, said graphical representation of said first service model.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

before said retrieving said SOA solution architecture model, locating by said computing system, said SOA solution architecture model, wherein said SOA solution architecture model comprises an existing SOA solution architecture model; and

generating, by said computing system, an architectural view of an SOA solution associated with said SOA solution architecture model.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

before said retrieving said SOA solution architecture model, determining, by said computing system, an absence of an existing SOA solution architecture model;

generating, by said computing system, said SOA solution architecture model; and

generating, by said computing system, an architectural view of an SOA solution associated with said SOA solution architecture model.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating, by said computing system, an instance of a UML model template.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said processing comprises retrieving each said element for said identifying.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said executing said UML model comprises leveraging said UML model for an operational modeling process.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating, by said computing system, an architectural view of an SOA solution associated with said SOA solution architecture model; and

presenting, by said computing system to a user, said architectural view of said SOA solution.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said loading said configuration file comprises initializing a mapping process between said SOA model elements and said architectural layers.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein said configuration file comprises an XML file.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein said SOA solution architecture model is retrieved from a current project.

11. A process for supporting computer infrastructure, said process comprising providing at least one support service for at least one of creating, integrating, hosting, maintaining, and deploying computer-readable code in said computing system, wherein the code in combination with said computing system is capable of performing the method of claim 1.

12. A computing system comprising a processor coupled to a computer-readable memory unit, said memory unit comprising instructions that when executed by the processor implements a unified modeling language (UML) model generation method, said method comprising:

retrieving, by a computing system, a service model;

retrieving, by said computing system, an SOA solution architecture model;

generating, by said computing system, a graphical representation of said SOA solution architecture model, wherein said graphical representation of said SOA solution architecture model comprises horizontal layers and cross-cutting layers, wherein said horizontal layers comprise a consumers layer, a business process layer, a services layer, a service component layer, and an operation system layer, and wherein said cross-cutting layers comprise a governance layer, a data architecture layer, a QoS layer, and an integration layer;

retrieving, by said computing system, a configuration file comprising mapping data, wherein said mapping data comprises data associating elements of said service model to architectural layers of said SOA solution architecture model, wherein said architectural layers are comprised by said horizontal layers and said cross-cutting layers, wherein said elements comprise a process/subprocess element, a domain element, an exposed service element, a service/functional/technical component element, an existing asset element, a business entity element, a business goal element, and a policy element, and wherein said architectural layers comprise an operation system layer, a service component layer, a services layer, a business process layer, a data architecture and business intelligent layer, and a governance layer;

loading, by said computing system, said configuration file;

processing, by said computing system, each element of said elements;

identifying, by said computing system, layers of said architectural layers that correspond to associated elements of said elements of said service model, wherein said identifying is based on said mapping data, wherein said layers of said architectural layers are represented as unified modeling language (UML) packages;

associating, by said computing system, each layer of said layers with an associated UML package of said UML packages;

placing, by said computing system, each said element in an associated layer of said architectural layers;

generating, by said computing system in response to said placing, a UML model, wherein said UML model comprises each said element in an associated layer of said architectural layers;

generating, by said computing system, a graphical representation of said UML model, wherein said graphical representation of said UML model comprises a representation of said UML packages and associated expanded sub-packages, and wherein said associated expanded sub-packages are associated with said cross-cutting layers;

loading, by said computing system, said UML model;

executing, by said computing system, said UML model;

generating, by said computing system, a graphical representation of a first service model derived from said UML model, wherein said first service model comprises an identification package, a specification package, a realization package, and a work product specification package, wherein said identification package comprises a goal-service model, a domain decomposition, a process definition, an information analysis, a business rules catalog, existing assets, and a service portfolio, and wherein said specification package comprises exposed services, existing services, service messages, a subsystem analysis, and a stack diagram; and

presenting, by said computing system via a computer monitor, said graphical representation of said first service model.

13. The computing system of claim 12, wherein said method further comprises:

before said retrieving said SOA solution architecture model, locating by said computing system, said SOA solution architecture model, wherein said SOA solution architecture model comprises an existing SOA solution architecture model; and

generating, by said computing system, an architectural view of an SOA solution associated with said SOA solution architecture model.

14. The computing system of claim 12, wherein said method further comprises:

before said retrieving said SOA solution architecture model, determining, by said computing system, an absence of an existing SOA solution architecture model;

generating, by said computing system, said SOA solution architecture model; and

generating, by said computing system, an architectural view of an SOA solution associated with said SOA solution architecture model.

15. The computing system of claim 12, wherein said method further comprises:

generating, by said computing system, an instance of a UML model template.

16. The computing system of claim 12, wherein said processing comprises retrieving each said element for said identifying.

17. The computing system of claim 12, wherein said executing said UML model comprises leveraging said UML model for an operational modeling process.

18. The computing system of claim 12, wherein said method further comprises:

generating, by said computing system, an architectural view of an SOA solution associated with said SOA solution architecture model; and

presenting, by said computing system to a user, said architectural view of said SOA solution.

19. The computing system of claim 12, wherein said loading said configuration file comprises initializing a mapping process between said SOA model elements and said architectural layers.

20. A computer program product, comprising a computer storage device storing a computer readable program code, said computer readable program code configured to perform a method of claim upon being executed by a processor of a computing system, said method comprising:

retrieving, by a computing system, a service model;

retrieving, by said computing system, an SOA solution architecture model;

generating, by said computing system, a graphical representation of said SOA solution architecture model, wherein said graphical representation of said SOA solution architecture model comprises horizontal layers and cross-cutting layers, wherein said horizontal layers comprise a consumers layer, a business process layer, a services layer, a service component layer, and an operation system layer, and wherein said cross-cutting layers comprise a governance layer, a data architecture layer, a QoS layer, and an integration layer;

retrieving, by said computing system, a configuration file comprising mapping data, wherein said mapping data comprises data associating elements of said service model to architectural layers of said SOA solution architecture model, wherein said architectural layers are comprised by said horizontal layers and said cross-cutting layers, wherein said elements comprise a process/subprocess element, a domain element, an exposed service element, a service/functional/technical component element, an existing asset element, a business entity element, a business goal element, and a policy element, and wherein said architectural layers comprise an operation system layer, a service component layer, a services layer, a business process layer, a data architecture and business intelligent layer, and a governance layer;

loading, by said computing system, said configuration file;

processing, by said computing system, each element of said elements;

identifying, by said computing system, layers of said architectural layers that correspond to associated elements of said elements of said service model, wherein said identifying is based on said mapping data, wherein said layers of said architectural layers are represented as unified modeling language (UML) packages;

associating, by said computing system, each layer of said layers with an associated UML package of said UML packages;

placing, by said computing system, each said element in an associated layer of said architectural layers;

generating, by said computing system in response to said placing, a UML model, wherein said UML model comprises each said element in an associated layer of said architectural layers;

generating, by said computing system, a graphical representation of said UML model, wherein said graphical representation of said UML model comprises a representation of said UML packages and associated expanded sub-packages, and wherein said associated expanded sub-packages are associated with said cross-cutting layers;

loading, by said computing system, said UML model;

executing, by said computing system, said UML model;

generating, by said computing system, a graphical representation of a first service model derived from said UML model, wherein said first service model comprises an identification package, a specification package, a realization package, and a work product specification package, wherein said identification package comprises a goal-service model, a domain decomposition, a process definition, an information analysis, a business rules catalog, existing assets, and a service portfolio, and wherein said specification package comprises exposed services, existing services, service messages, a subsystem analysis, and a stack diagram; and

presenting, by said computing system via a computer monitor, said graphical representation of said first service model.